Robert Sheldon Data Conversion in SQL Server Most of the time, you do not have to worry about implicit conversion in SQL expressions, or when assigning a... 06 January 2011 17 min read
Dennis Lloyd Sebastian Meine SQL Server Unit Testing with tSQLt When one considers the amount of time and effort that Unit Testing consumes for the Database Developer, is surprising how... 06 January 2011 11 min read
Troy Hunt Foolproof Atomic Versioning of Applications Bad things tend to happen to developments where the scripts for the database layer are left out of source control.... 08 December 2010 9 min read
Glenn Berry SQL Server Hardware SQL Server Hardware will provide the fundamental knowledge and resources you need to make intelligent decisions about choice, and optimal... 08 December 2010 3 min read
Michael Francis SQL Source Control – Less Pain for Red Jungle As a dedicated 'twitcher', Michael's eye is caught by a 'tweet' from Red Jungle. In this case, it was not... 26 November 2010 5 min read
Michael Sorens Creating Tray Applications in .NET: A Practical Guide It isn't widely known that you can use both WPF and Winforms with VS2010 to create a system tray application... 04 November 2010 26 min read
Richard Morris Kevan Riley: DBA of the Day When the ASK.SQLServerCentral.com site started, something magical happened. A band of DBA and developer volunteers got together to ensure the... 18 October 2010 13 min read
Corrin Lakeland Snapper’s Sweet Source Control Corrin Lakeland's busy role as a Data Manager includes supervising the work of all database development. Although he was already... 12 October 2010 6 min read
Jonathan Medd PowerShell Version 2: What is new and why is it important? It was a year ago that Microsoft shipped PowerShell 2. Jonathan Medd lists the top ten reasons why PowerShell 2... 21 September 2010 16 min read
Andrew Clarke SQL Source Control: The Development Story, Part II When creating SQL Source Control, the team had to make decisions as to which source control systems the tool would... 02 September 2010 14 min read
Ben Lye Identifying Exchange ActiveSync Users with PowerShell Just recently, a problem involving the iPhone/iPod's synchronisation process with Exchange 2007, made it necessary for Exchange Administrators to alert... 26 August 2010 7 min read
Brad McGehee Rebuilding Indexes using the SSMS Database Maintenance Wizard Index fragmentation can cause problems with query performance. Indexes therefore need to be occasionally rebuilt. the Rebuild Index task of... 18 August 2010 24 min read
Michael Sorens Mixing WPF and WinForms You can embed WPF controls in a WinForms application or WinForms controls in a WPF application, using a simple adapter.... 10 August 2010 32 min read
Mike Mooney When Database Source Control Goes Bad It is a question every development manager dreads; "So how does your company handle database changes?". The reply usually masks... 05 August 2010 25 min read
Krishna Kumar Increasing Email Size Limits for your High Profile Users in Exchange 2010 If you ever need to set up fine-grained rules to control the maximum size of messages a subset of your... 26 July 2010 14 min read
Andrew Clarke SQL Source Control: The Development Story Often, there is a huge difference between software being easy to use, and easy to develop. When your pilot users... 22 July 2010 21 min read
Eli Arbel Reflectoron in Prism: a WPF MVVM tutorial When Eli was writing a WPF MVVM tutorial, he decided to use .NET Reflector as his sample, and created a... 14 July 2010 9 min read
Khawar Yunus Obfuscating Silverlight with SmartAssembly If you are in the .NET Software business, you have a problem. .NET assemblies can be read, and debugged, by... 02 June 2010 4 min read
Matteo Slaviero AJAX basics with jQuery in ASP.NET ASP.NET now has support for the jQuery JavaScript library. Although ASP.NET integrated AJAX technology by introducing the is the UpdatePanel... 19 May 2010 20 min read
Richard Morris Chuck Esterbrook: Geek of the Week The Cobra Programming Language is an exciting new general-purpose Open-source language for .NET or Mono, which features unit tests, contracts,... 26 April 2010 13 min read
